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Queenstown RSL

Locality: Queenstown, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6471 1209

Address: Crn McNamara & Cutten Streets 7467 Queenstown, TAS, Australia

Website: www.rsltas.org.au/clubdirectory/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_full&ClubID=2002&OrgID=1596

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24.01.2022 Today marks the 105th Anniversary of the attack on Hill 60. The attack on Hill 60 was the last offensive action by Anzac and British troops on Gallipoli. The op...eration was intended to widen and strengthen the corridor that connected the newly landed British force at Suvla Bay with the beach-head at Anzac. Charles Bean would describe the battle "as one of the most difficult in which Australian troops were ever engaged". The following day, the attack was reinforced by the newly arrived 18th Battalion. They were strong and healthy in comparison to the veteran troops but were inexperienced and ill-equipped. Out of 750 men they suffered 383 casualties in the attack. Learn more: http://ow.ly/qzjo50B0Vlz Image: Hill 60, Gallipoli 1915-08-27. The commanding officer of 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Carew Reynell. The next day he was killed in action. H02784

23.01.2022 Thank you for your service

23.01.2022 Thank you for your service LEST WE FORGET

23.01.2022 LEST WE FORGOT

22.01.2022 On 14 September 1947, four Australian military observers entered the field as part of the United Nations Good Offices Committee to Indonesia. Since then, not a... day has passed without an Australian serving in a peacekeeping operation somewhere in the world. Australia has made more than 40,000 individual deployments to more than 60 peacekeeping operations in over 30 countries and disputed zones. Today marks the 73rd anniversary of Australia’s first peacekeeping deployment. It is important to reflect on the service and sacrifice of so many Australians. We encourage current and former service personnel to continue telling their stories as we expand our collection to better tell the story of Australian peacekeeping into the future. To read the extended blog, click here: https://www.awm.gov.au/articl/blog/recognising-peacekeeping The Australian War Memorial’s Development Project will be sharing the stories of a new generation of Australian men and women who have served our nation in recent conflicts, and on peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. To share your story email: [email protected] To stay informed about the Development Project sign up to the Our Next Chapter e-newsletter: www.awm.gov.au/ourcontinuingstory/stayinformed

20.01.2022 LEST WE FORGET

20.01.2022 #Onthisday in 1944 Academy award-winning, Australian cameraman Damien Parer was killed while filming American troops in the Pacific. He was killed in action by... Japanese machine gun fire while filming the landing of US tanks on the beach at Peleliu, an island in the Palau Group. Episode 10 of Collected discusses Damien and his Award winning film 'Kokoda Front Line’. Listen here: http://ow.ly/330y50BnK6i Image: Damien Parer about to embark on the transport ship Empress of Japan. Photographer: Edward Lefevre Cranstone, 000401

18.01.2022 Well done Mountain Heights

15.01.2022 Thank you to all who attended our service this morning at the Queenstown Cenotaph Congratulations to Mountain Heights School on their service today Our local aged care home also held a service & finished with a sing along LEST WE FORGET

11.01.2022 Well done & thankyou

09.01.2022 77 years ago today, the men of Z Special Unit engaged in Operation Jaywick; one of the best known Special Forces missions of the Second World War. On the evenin...g of 26 September 1943, six British and 11 Australian army and naval personnel, operating from the former fishing vessel Krait, placed limpet mines on ships in Singapore harbour. When the mines exploded, seven ships were sank or badly damaged. Read more about Operation Jaywick here: http://ow.ly/wE0P50ByBnI You can also read the first-hand account of Operation Jaywick by the late Moss Berryman (pictured backrow, far left): http://ow.ly/3UIq50ByBnF Image: Group portrait after the completion of Operation Jaywick, "Z" Special Unit. 045424. See names of all others pictured here: http://ow.ly/FgJ450ByBnH

07.01.2022 Welcome to Spring